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Provide a well written paragraph summarizing the following article on the content validity index in healthcare:

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2006). The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? Critique and recommendations. Research in Nursing & Health, 29 (5).

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Researchers analyzed content validity when using computing for a content validity index (CVI) by using ratings of item relevance created by content experts. Researchers focused on two unorthodox methods of computing scale-level index (S-CVI) and the use of ...

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